Improvement in combined pencil holder and sharpener



E. B. LAKE. Combined Pencil Holder and Sharpener.

No. 196,676. Patentd Oct. 30,1877.

MV PETERS. PHOTO LITHOGHAFHER WASHINGTQN. D Cv PATENT OFFICE.

EZRA B. LAKE, OF BRIOKSBURG, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED PENQIL HOLDER AND SHARPENER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,676, dated October30, 1877; application filed March 15, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, EZRAB. LAKE, of Bricksburg, in the county of Oceanand State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful CombinedPencil Holder and Sharpener and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and useit, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part ofthis specification, in which Figures 1 and 4: are longitudinal verticalsections of my invention; Fig. 2, a side elevation and Fig. 3 a detailperspective.

My invention consists'of a tube having one end open and holding at theother a file or grater, by means of which the point of a pencil may bereduced or sharpened, said tube also serving as a'sheath or protectorfor said point when the pencil is not in use.

In the accompanying drawing, A designates a metal tube, open at a. Atits other end is fastened a file or grater, B, said file being insertedin a slot, a, cut in the tube, the metal of the latter on either side ofsaid slot being lapped or pinched over the back of the file, as shown ata in Fig. 3; or said file 0r grater may be made in the form shown inFig. 4, being less wide than deep, and simply pressed into a narrow slotin the tube A.

G is an enlarged head or chamber, which, if

an opening be made for that purpose in the tube A, will serve as areceptacle for the dust or shavings of the pencil until the latter is.withdrawn from the tube.

To sharpen, the pencil-point d, insert said pencil D, as shown in Fig.1, and turn. The

. a table or other solid object, the mouth a being inverted.

What I claim is- 1. The grater or file B, in combination with the tubeA, having a slot with pinched edges, c substantially as described.

2. The enlarged chamber 0, in combination with the tube A and file orgrater B. y

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this6th day of March, 1877.

EZRA B. LAKE.

Witnesses:

GEO. O. SHELMERDINE, SAM'L. J. VAN STAvoRnN.

